My Journey of Life: Hongkong-Macau 17-21 May 2012 (17th)

Hi all..!! I am back with another story to share. Here we go...

17.05.12

4 am I woke up, as usual..too excited, couldn't sleep well a whole night. Looked over through window, it was raining heavily outside, thinking myself, "Hope the flight won't be delayed". Reached airport around 5.30 am, checked in and waited for boarding time. The rain hadn't even stopped yet, lucky that our flight took off on time. It takes about 4 hours of journey from Singapore to Hongkong. We arrived at Hongkong airport almost 11 am. My first impression with this airport was not good, when I entered the main building I smelled something smelly, it came from the floor carpet that they used, looked like never been cleaned up for years, was wondering whether this building is intended for low cost budget airlines passengers.

We went to ticketing counter to buy our Macau ferry ticket. After got the ticket, we looked for noodle stall to have our lunch, 1 bowl of dumpling noodle was HKD 41. There is free wi-fi access inside airport, we were too engross surfing through our phone, until almost reached the time for boarding we then went to ferry terminal, never realized that the distance from airport to ferry terminal is not that close. We still needed to go up and down the escalator and take train to reach terminal. As result, we were the last 2 persons who got on board, hehehe.

The ferry took about 1 hour to reach Macau. After settled with immigration there, we looked for our hotel shuttle bus at bus terminal outside the building. A lot of shuttle bus service was waiting outside and it's free of charge and you can board into one of the bus even you don't stay in their hotel. Anyway, most of hotels here are close to each other. We stayed at Sintra Hotel, previously had already booked via website for 1 night MOP 747.50 (1 MOP = 1 HKD) with a refundable deposit MOP 600 and you can pay using Hongkong dollar in Macau everywhere. I recommend this hotel, the price is not so expensive, near the city and the room is clean & complete with all necessary amenities.

After rest a while, we went out to MGM building, nothing much, seemed like casino everywhere not many entertainment there and from MGM we took another shuttle bus to City of Dream, the Venetian Macau is just the opposite of City of Dream. Interior design inside Venetian building is very beautiful, it is an indoor city, really amazed with it. After finished exploring the building, we went back to city area by shuttle bus. We had dinner at local restaurant, 1 bowl dumpling noodle was MOP 30, 1 set of sweet sour fish with rice was MOP 55 with free flow of tea.

Night coming, we then continued walking to Senado Square and ruin of St. Paul, also bought few tit bits there before we went back to hotel and took rest. Don't forget to try Portuguese egg tart there, 1 piece was MOP 7.